[lit-ideas] Re: Fukuyama and the end of history
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:57:00 -0400
Sad to no longer struggle for purely abstract goals? He's kidding, right?
Fukuyama is an idiot. Or he would have made a great Communist.
> [Original Message]
> From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/20/2006 1:22:24 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fukuyama and the end of history
>
>
>
> --- Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Lawrence, you've forgotten the book. I read it
> > several weeks ago.
> >
> > Page references? It would quite a task. The book
> > constantly attacks liberal democracy as a
> > ploy of weaklings.
>
> The last paragraph of F' "End of History ?" essay
> reads:
>
> The end of history will be a very sad time. The
> struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk
> one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide
> ideological struggle that called forth daring,
> courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced
> by economic calculation, the endless solving of
> technical problems, environmental concerns, and the
> satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands. In the
> post-historical period there will be neither art nor
> philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the
> museum of human history. I can feel in myself, and see
> in others around me, a powerful nostalgia for the time
> when history existed. Such nostalgia, in fact, will
> continue to fuel competition and conflict even in the
> post-historical world for some time to come. Even
> though I recognize its inevitability, I have the most
> ambivalent feelings for the civilization that has been
> created in Europe since 1945, with its north Atlantic
> and Asian offshoots. Perhaps this very prospect of
> centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve
> to get history started once again.
>
> http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm
>
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